It's been a long time since I took a road trip.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Makeup reviews
The Maybelline primer and Maybelline foundation compact are working out great! I have used them for 2 days now. The Maybelline foundation compact is as good as the Cover Girl one I have used in the summer for a few years now. And the primer is as good as the Laura Mercier one I think. Thank goodness one of the drugstore brands came out with a primer, because I really don't think I can justify the expense of Laura Mercier or Smashbox.
Sadly, the Cover Girl lipstick I just bought is a bust. It's that Outlast stuff in coral silk with a separate clear gloss stick. The gloss is fine, but the coral silk is just awful. It looks like it's frosted, which I hate. It does stay on for hours, but who wants that when the color is so ugly? Now I'm afraid to try drugstore lipsticks again. I have a bunch of old lipsticks that I will drag out to see if any of the colors has come back in style. If they don't look good I guess I am back to the Paula Begoun nude illusion lipstick which I do love, but I don't like paying shipping. Nor do I like waiting for it to be shipped.
When the Estee Lauder blush stick runs out I will have to determine the best drugstore cream blush.
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CAM
It's finally raining
We really needed it. Why does google show the time of my blog posts 3 hours earlier than I actually posted? Does google think everyone lives on the P coast?
Got my hair cut and highlighted today, along with a single process. It cost $167 plus tip. It doesn't really seem worth since I don't look that good anyway, being so fat. But I look worse without all the hair care, so I do it.
I was just looking at a blog that included a section on children's books and it made me think about what a shame it is that neither of my kids loved the same books I loved as a child. Some of my nieces loved them, but not my sons. Maybe it's a gender thing. Stinkin' boys. I mean, I didn't expect them to love Nancy Drew, but what's wrong with the Lloyd Alexander Books, A Wrinkle in Time, Hubble's Bubble and on and on? If I'd had a girl I bet she would have loved The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. If I have a granddaughter someday I hope she comes to my house all the time. I want to have a room for her filled with all the great books, and pink stuff and shiny stuff. And an AMAZING dollhouse. I bought dollhouses for 2 of my nieces, but they never really got into it.
It's too bad my kids and my imaginary granddaughter will never experience the thrill and anticipation of the Sears Wish Book! I really think I had a better childhood than anyone else in the history of the world and I feel bad that my kids' was so much worse than mine. I had a stay-at-home mom and a world where kids could go out for hours and hours without their moms necessarily knowing where they were. And of course, I had the Sears Wish Book, my own room and 2 weeks down the shore every year. At least my kids had their own rooms and short weeks down the shore (M-F). We used to sublet during the week from people who had group rentals and were only there on the weekends. It hardly made up for the lack of a father in their lives of course, but it was something.
If I win the lottery I am going to buy 2 beach houses; one little one for me and one big one for everyone else. Maybe I will get a 3rd one to use as just a party house or maybe I will get a separate one for my sons, but in any event, there will be beach houses.
There will also be a house for me, close to where I live now, but a single house with no one upstairs, downstairs or on the other side of any of my walls. That way I can sing without bothering anyone. It will be a little house but with a yard big enough for the big indoor/outdoor pool I want. I don't even know if such a thing exists but presumably I will have enough lottery winnings to have one invented if it has not been invented yet. Maybe it will have guesthouses where I can house Ma Mere and Mon Fils (the one who still lives with me). It will have a pool house with locker rooms, showers, bathrooms and a kitchen so people can come over to swim w/o having to go into the actual house. And of course there will be cabanas. I want a twisty water slide too. How about a swim-up bar? Doesn't that sound fun? I would love sitting in my cabana or around my swim-up bar watching my grandkids going down the twisty slide. I will have to get some other stuff that kids love, like rafts and games and stuff. Noodles. Oh I know, I will have a water exercise instructor come every day before I go to work!
Yes, I will still work even after I win the lottery. If I don't have a routine, I know I will go to pieces. Maybe I will donate all my salary to Invisible Children or Doctors Without Borders.
Oh and my little house will have dogs in it. Big floppy dogs and doggie treadmills so they get plenty of exercise. I will get retrievers so they will like to swim in the pool.
I think I will jet all over the world and see everything and everywhere, even places I don't think I'll like, just to see if I end up being surprised and liking them. Of course, I will first go to the places I know I will like, for example, New Zealand and Scotland. I will take a cruise too and then decide if I prefer to travel by boat or by plane. Or maybe a European river cruise would be fun. I could buy my own island and sunbathe nude.
Should I buy houses or condos or apartments in all the places I love, like NYC, SoCal and the south of France? Or just stay in hotels or rental places? So much to decide! Who will manage all this money for me? Who can I trust? Who will do my makeover for me? I hope Stacy, Clinton and Carmindy are available. I will buy a Burberry raincoat and a pair of wellies and visit every inch of the British Isles and have a pint in every pub.
I'm pretty sure I'm blogging right now because I don't feel like cleaning or like doing a workout routine.
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CAM
Friday, July 9, 2010
Bad day
So I have not told anyone about my blog. I want to keep it a secret. It's a total vanity thing and no one would be interested. My life is hardly exciting, even to me.
Someone yelled at me today at work! This never happens here; I don't work in the kind of environment where it is ok to yell at each other. It was very unexpected and I almost cried, which I almost never do. It really shook me up. My boss is angry on my behalf, which is so nice of her. The person who yelled at me is the sibling of a VERY important person so whatcha gonna do? I think he was having a bad day and maybe his job is just tough all around, but really, we just don't DO that here!
It was very busy at work today, which I usually enjoy but today it had me tearing my hair out. It's enough to make a girl want to eat a pizza. I had 3 fruits/vegetables today so yay me. The WW challenge for this month is to have 5 a day, which we are supposed to be doing anyway but I rarely reach that daily goal. Maybe I will just go home and cry?
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Someone yelled at me today at work! This never happens here; I don't work in the kind of environment where it is ok to yell at each other. It was very unexpected and I almost cried, which I almost never do. It really shook me up. My boss is angry on my behalf, which is so nice of her. The person who yelled at me is the sibling of a VERY important person so whatcha gonna do? I think he was having a bad day and maybe his job is just tough all around, but really, we just don't DO that here!
It was very busy at work today, which I usually enjoy but today it had me tearing my hair out. It's enough to make a girl want to eat a pizza. I had 3 fruits/vegetables today so yay me. The WW challenge for this month is to have 5 a day, which we are supposed to be doing anyway but I rarely reach that daily goal. Maybe I will just go home and cry?
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CAM
follow up to prior blog post
Today was my first ever blog post so I forgive myself for failing to proofread it. Of course they sell mascara at Sephora; I just didn't know if they sold Lancome mascara there. This was easy enough to check and guess what? They do sell Lancome on Sephora. The definicils mascara is $24.50, which is $10 more than the most expensive drustore mascara (the Maybelline Pulse Perfection). Now, $10 may not seem like much in the scheme of things, but since you are only supposed to keep an open tube of mascara for a month or 6 weeks, this is at least $120 more a year. Plus, most drugstore mascaras are under $10, and you see how it adds up? Not to mention I can walk to CVS and I would have to either pay for gas or postage to buy the Lancome. And how would I afford to live in Bryn Mawr and take European vacations if I was spending money on premium mascara? It's bad enough what I spend on my hair.
By the way, I do think it's pretentious to sign off my blog posts with a French phrase, to which I say, "Pretentious? Moi?"
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By the way, I do think it's pretentious to sign off my blog posts with a French phrase, to which I say, "Pretentious? Moi?"
A toute a l'heure
CAM
Drugstore mascara in 2010 part I
I started off the year with 2009's winner, Revlon Lash Fantasy. Alas, the 2nd time around, I no longer loved it. So, I read some blogs and decided to try some high scorers.
I started out in February with Maybelline Pulse Perfection. The pulse thing is hard to do because you have to press the pulse button continuously while you apply. Serious design flaw! Maybe some tricky chicks out there are coordinated enough to apply mascara while pressing a button, but not moi. It didn't put much mascara on my lashes, so it did not give me the volume I sought.
March brought the Rimmel Glam Eyes, which was just ok, not great. Turned out I bought the wrong Rimmel; I had meant to buy Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt. {Why the hell do they give their mascaras such similar names????}. The regular "Rimmel Glam Eyes" failed to wow me so for April I bought the "Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt", which got flaky by the end of the month and was just ok anyway. It was definitely better than the Glam Eyes, as it put more mascara on my lashes. I need a lot of mascara or my eyes look bald. Still, flaky is not good.
So, heeding Paula Begoun in May I bought Rimmel the Max Volume Flash. She's the Cosmetics Cop, right? So, she oughta know. Sadly, she didn't. It was gone by the end of day! That is a problem for me. I do not want bald lashes at 5 PM. Still, I used it through the month in order to continue with my scientific research. I still didn't think much of it by the end of the month.
It was summer by the end of the month anyway and time for some waterproof mascara which I need because A) I might go swimming and B) I perspire in Philly's damn summer weather. Ok, I say hell and damn, which my sister thinks makes me a bad influence on her kids, but come on! I say much worse when they're not around. Plus my sister reprimanded me the other night for asking if my ex-husband's current wife had green teeth (a legitimate question IMO, because my older son's ex-girlfriend Amy told me she did, and I never followed up so to this day I don't know if Amy was exaggerating. I mean I ASSUME she was, but she did say it and she is not a mean person) in front of her kids but later the same night she allowed daughter #1 to talk about prostitutes and hookers in front of daughter #2 and son #2 and I ask you: which is worse???? Prostitutes & hookers or green teeth??? Sometimes I think my sister LOOKS for things to disapprove of, especially when it comes to me.
So I read Good Housekeeping's review of waterproof mascaras and decided on Cover Girl Exact Highlights waterproof. Now this was a dilemma when I arrived at CVS, because they were on a "buy one, get the 2nd for 50%" sale so what to do? Give up the sale because I might not like the mascara? Give up the sale because my scientific research into drugstore mascara called for a different mascara each month? In the end, my penny pinching tendencies won out and I bought two. It's now July 9 and I am still on the 1st tube (which I started to use on June 15) and it is doing ok. It's waterproof alright, but it takes a lot of work to make it darken my lashes at all.
And this marks 18 months of research into drugstore mascara. At some point I know I am going to have to conclude that there is no great drugstore mascara and go buy some Lancome Definicils. I hate that thought. I don't like paying Lancome prices and I HATE going to the mall. I also hate paying delivery charges so it's not like I'm going to buy it at sephora.com. (if they even sell mascara at Sephora). It just doesn't seem right.
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CAM
I started out in February with Maybelline Pulse Perfection. The pulse thing is hard to do because you have to press the pulse button continuously while you apply. Serious design flaw! Maybe some tricky chicks out there are coordinated enough to apply mascara while pressing a button, but not moi. It didn't put much mascara on my lashes, so it did not give me the volume I sought.
March brought the Rimmel Glam Eyes, which was just ok, not great. Turned out I bought the wrong Rimmel; I had meant to buy Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt. {Why the hell do they give their mascaras such similar names????}. The regular "Rimmel Glam Eyes" failed to wow me so for April I bought the "Rimmel Glam Eyes Lash Flirt", which got flaky by the end of the month and was just ok anyway. It was definitely better than the Glam Eyes, as it put more mascara on my lashes. I need a lot of mascara or my eyes look bald. Still, flaky is not good.
So, heeding Paula Begoun in May I bought Rimmel the Max Volume Flash. She's the Cosmetics Cop, right? So, she oughta know. Sadly, she didn't. It was gone by the end of day! That is a problem for me. I do not want bald lashes at 5 PM. Still, I used it through the month in order to continue with my scientific research. I still didn't think much of it by the end of the month.
It was summer by the end of the month anyway and time for some waterproof mascara which I need because A) I might go swimming and B) I perspire in Philly's damn summer weather. Ok, I say hell and damn, which my sister thinks makes me a bad influence on her kids, but come on! I say much worse when they're not around. Plus my sister reprimanded me the other night for asking if my ex-husband's current wife had green teeth (a legitimate question IMO, because my older son's ex-girlfriend Amy told me she did, and I never followed up so to this day I don't know if Amy was exaggerating. I mean I ASSUME she was, but she did say it and she is not a mean person) in front of her kids but later the same night she allowed daughter #1 to talk about prostitutes and hookers in front of daughter #2 and son #2 and I ask you: which is worse???? Prostitutes & hookers or green teeth??? Sometimes I think my sister LOOKS for things to disapprove of, especially when it comes to me.
So I read Good Housekeeping's review of waterproof mascaras and decided on Cover Girl Exact Highlights waterproof. Now this was a dilemma when I arrived at CVS, because they were on a "buy one, get the 2nd for 50%" sale so what to do? Give up the sale because I might not like the mascara? Give up the sale because my scientific research into drugstore mascara called for a different mascara each month? In the end, my penny pinching tendencies won out and I bought two. It's now July 9 and I am still on the 1st tube (which I started to use on June 15) and it is doing ok. It's waterproof alright, but it takes a lot of work to make it darken my lashes at all.
And this marks 18 months of research into drugstore mascara. At some point I know I am going to have to conclude that there is no great drugstore mascara and go buy some Lancome Definicils. I hate that thought. I don't like paying Lancome prices and I HATE going to the mall. I also hate paying delivery charges so it's not like I'm going to buy it at sephora.com. (if they even sell mascara at Sephora). It just doesn't seem right.
A toute a l'heure
CAM
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